Legal Opinion
Morrison v. New York Telephone Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided April 12, 1938PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtHubbs, J.
This action is to recover for negligently causing the death of the appellant’s intestate by electrocution. The defendant Big Wolf Corporation owned a tract of land in the Adirondack Mountains which it purchased from Ferris J. Meigs who excepted from the grant thirty-one acres. On that thirty-one acres one Stout had a cottage on a lot, the record title of which was at the time in Meigs. The Big Wolf Corporation erected five poles on a spur power fine about 650 feet long, extending from the main line of the village of Tupper Lake and the telephone company to the Stout cottage, part of which…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Foulke v. New York Consolidated RailroadNew York Court of Appeals · 1920
- Adams v. . BullockNew York Court of Appeals · 1919
- Burrows v. Livingston-Niagara Power Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1926
- Burrows v. Livingston-Niagara Power CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1926
- Wittleder v. Citizens' Electric Illuminating Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1900
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3Cited by9 opinions
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- Scholl v. New York Central RailroadAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1956
- Waters v. Long Island Rail RoadNew York Supreme Court · 1966
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